Your Board of Directors

David Reed brings this Board a judge's habits of mind — weighing evidence, testing argument, and deciding. He practiced as a private attorney for twenty-three years and then served sixteen years as a judge of the Yolo County Superior Court, and continues to sit on assignment in retirement. He chairs the Board's Audit Committee and serves on Nominating and Interviewing. His first degree was in civil engineering, which gives the Board an unusual asset as Saratoga undertakes the largest construction project in its modern history: a director who can read a schedule and a set of drawings as readily as a contract.

He holds a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law.

An Odd Fellow since 2007, David joined Davis Lodge No. 169 and has served it as Noble Grand, Vice Grand, Treasurer, and Trustee. He is also a member of the Davis Rebekahs and the Davis Encampment. At the state level he has served the Grand Lodge of California as Grand Warden, Deputy Grand Master, and Grand Master. This is the second of two non-consecutive terms on the OFHC Board.

Outside the Order he is active in Rotary, whose fruit-picking teams supply donations to the Yolo Food Bank.

He returned, he says, to help the Board continue to provide responsible governance for OFHC residents.

Terry Olson spent thirty-nine years in healthcare administration before retiring — the professional background on this Board that most directly matches the work the Home actually does. Governing two continuing care communities means reading census and staffing reports, licensing requirements, and care-level decisions the way an operator reads them, and Terry did exactly that for a working lifetime. He brings institutional memory as well: he first joined this Board in 2012 and served through 2023, returned in 2025 to complete an unexpired term, and was then elected in his own right. He serves on the Nominating, Interviewing, and Fraternal Relations committees.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Mankato State University.

An Odd Fellow for thirty years, Terry worked his way through the chairs of Circle Lodge No. 377 in Corona to Noble Grand, and has served the lodge as both Secretary and Treasurer. He served the Grand Lodge of California as Grand Chaplain, advanced through the Encampment branch to Grand High Priest, and serves today as Grand Treasurer of the Grand Encampment.

Beyond the Order, he is Secretary of both his flotilla and his division in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Treasurer of Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, and a member of Elks Lodge No. 2642.

Asked why he serves, Terry answers plainly: since retiring, volunteering has given him purpose — and a way to live out the Odd Fellows' valediction.

Susan Muroshige Omura represents her fellow residents of Saratoga Retirement Community on the Board, and brings to it a career spent making residential and hospitality operations work. She spent seventeen years at Stanford University as a Conference Coordinator, arranging campus housing, dining, and meeting space for youth camps and adult conferences — the same operational questions, at a similar scale, that a continuing care community answers every day. Before Stanford she spent twenty years in department-store retail — Macy's in New York and New Jersey, and Mervyn's and Emporium-Capwell in the Bay Area — as a buyer, merchandise manager, and personnel manager, so she reads purchasing, staffing, and service questions from the inside.

She holds a B.A. from the University of Hawaii.

Susan volunteers with her father's veterans club in Honolulu, working to preserve the stories of the soldiers of the 100th Infantry Battalion — the first Japanese-American unit of the U.S. Army to fight in Italy and France during the Second World War.

She came to this Board with a clear and specific purpose: to represent her fellow SRC residents effectively through a period of major change in their community.

Charlie Slyngstad serves as outside general counsel to the Odd Fellows Home of California, advising the Board on governance, contracts, employment, and the regulatory questions that come with operating two continuing care communities. He is General Counsel of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP in Los Angeles, where his practice spans public law, employment, and complex business litigation. He has tried more than thirty-five cases in California state and federal courts and is certified by the State Bar of California's Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in Legal Malpractice Law. He is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Southern California Super Lawyer in professional liability defense. His experience maps closely onto our own: for sixteen years he served as special corporate and litigation counsel to Victor Valley Community Hospital, guiding it through the sale of its assets with the consent of the California Attorney General. He holds a J.D. from UC Hastings, where he was Associate Managing Editor of the Hastings Law Journal, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley.

Robin Evitts advises the Board on financial matters, bringing nearly thirty years in finance, audit, and operational transformation. She spent fifteen years at Deloitte & Touche, rising to partner in the firm's Oakland office, and then seven years at The Clorox Company, where she served as Chief Information Officer before taking on the role of Chief Audit Executive. She has since worked as a Managing Director in Alvarez & Marsal's Performance Improvement practice in San Francisco, and is a partner and Chief Operating Officer of Reach Partners. The combination of partner-level public accounting experience and audit leadership inside a Fortune 500 company is exactly what an organization of our size and complexity needs in a financial advisor. Beyond her work for the Home, she serves on the board of Great Minds in STEM and as treasurer of a women-owned distribution business.

David Mendoza advises the Board on the stewardship of the Home's investments and endowment. A Private Advisor and Managing Director at Rockefeller Capital Management, he has spent more than four decades in wealth management — beginning his career at E.F. Hutton, then serving clients at Merrill Lynch from 1981 until joining Rockefeller in 2022. That span has carried him and his clients through every market condition of the modern era, which is precisely the perspective a charitable institution built to last in perpetuity wants from the person advising its portfolio. He has been named to the Forbes “Best-in-State Wealth Advisors” list, and works with business owners, executives, professionals, and families — often across several generations of the same family. He holds a bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University, a few miles from the Saratoga campus.